Benoît Peeters

“B.-H. Lévy: I am amazed to see that when somebody (I’ve been given leave to speak, so I will) starts to explain…

— Benoît Peeters

“Sylviane Agacinski, who was a friend of Catherine, was present in the audience. Even though Sylviane was still one of the authors…

— Benoît Peeters

“What was difficult to deal with was his permanent anxiety: when we were little, he was afraid we’d go and play outside…

— Benoît Peeters

“When he read the text for the first time, Alan Bass, who was far from being a novice, had the impression that…

— Benoît Peeters

“at the Catholic DePaul University, Michael Naas and Pascale-Anne Brault were faithful translators as well as friends.”

— Benoît Peeters

“In Derrida’s words, Anti-Oedipus was a ‘very bad book (confused, full of contorted disclaimers, etc.) but an important symptomatic event, to judge…

— Benoît Peeters

“The plane that had taken off from Baltimore was caught in bad weather, which meant the Derridas missed their connection at Boston.…

— Benoît Peeters

“After dinners in Ris-Orangis, Derrida would gladly offer to drive home any guests without transport. He enjoyed driving, and always went into…

— Benoît Peeters

“He had a kind of urgent drive to be forever producing something, to get involved in more and more projects, to leave…

— Benoît Peeters

“Derrida was particularly pained to see the story of his relationship with Sylviane exposed in two biographies of Jospin, long extracts from…

— Benoît Peeters

“When consulted on one of the earliest texts by Alain Badiou, an article on Althusser, Derrida’s reply was both frank and open-minded:…

— Benoît Peeters

“Derrida had not seen the child again, apart from one completely chance encounter. One day, coming out of a plane in an…

— Benoît Peeters

“Derrida is convinced: the ‘Enlightenment to come’ should take the logic of the unconscious into account. This involves, for example, answering a…

— Benoît Peeters

“The review L’Arc, meanwhile, wished to devote a complete issue to Derrida. Catherine Clément submitted a list of contributors in which there…

— Benoît Peeters

“Ultimately, the only thing that sometimes annoyed Marguerite was Jacques’s jealous temperament. ‘He wasn’t happy when he couldn’t reach me straightaway.”

— Benoît Peeters

“In the middle of ‘Monicagate’, Bill Clinton himself used deconstruction in his own defence. Accused of lying when he had claimed not…

— Benoît Peeters